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fried rice

fried rice noun: any of very many forms of rice that are first cooked by boiling and then stir-fried with other ingredients.

fried rice: any of very many forms of rice that are first cooked by boiling and then stir-fried with other...
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Noun

fried rice (countable and uncountable, plural fried rices)

  1. Any of very many forms of rice that are first cooked by boiling and then stir-fried with other ingredients

fried rice meaning in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Sinhala

fried rice in Tamil

நியாக்கியம், வறுசோறு, பொரிசோறு

fried rice in Telugu

form of rice
వేపుడుబియ్యము vēpuḍubiyyamu

fried rice in Kannada

ಹುರಿದನ್ನ

fried rice in Sinhala

තෙම්පරාදු බත්
More languagesFewer languages
fried rice in Tagalog
sinangag
fried rice in Malay
nasi goreng
fried rice in Indonesian
nasi goreng
fried rice in Thai
ข้าวผัด kâao-pàt
fried rice in Vietnamese
cơm chiên, cơm rang
fried rice in Myanmar
ထမင်းကြော် hta.mang:krau

Forms of fried rice

pluralfried rices

Origin of fried rice

Calque of Chinese 炒飯 /炒饭 (chǎofàn, literally “fried rice”).

Words formed from fried rice

Questions about fried rice

What does fried rice mean?
Fried rice means any of very many forms of rice that are first cooked by boiling and then stir-fried with other ingredients.
What is fried rice in Tamil?
Fried rice in Tamil is நியாக்கியம், வறுசோறு, பொரிசோறு. See Fried rice meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is fried rice?
Fried rice is a noun.
What is the plural of fried rice?
The plural of fried rice is fried rices.

Words near fried rice in the dictionary

  1. fried eggs
  2. Fried Liver Attack
  3. fried oyster
  4. fried pie
  5. fried pies
  6. fried rice
  7. fried rice syndrome
  8. fried rices
  9. fried slice
  10. fried slices
  11. fried someone's bacon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fried rice (page history and authors); fried rice (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fried rice (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fried rice (Sinhala Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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